Andrew Cline: NCAA's courtside exploitation lands in court

7:31 PM,
Apr. 4, 2014

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Andrew Cline

Current and former college athletes have lawyered up and gone after the NCAA for the exploitative contract it requires athletes to sign in exchange for competing in a college uniform. As a result, the NCAA's financial empire is beginning to fracture. The results could - and should - change college athletics forever.

The recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board's regional director, Peter Sung Ohr, is the second crack in the foundation of the multibillion dollar enterprise in recent months. Ohr ruled that Northwestern University's football players are paid to perform a service, ...